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ICPSR has announced a May 4 webinar entitled “Creating a Harmonized Custom Data Extract for MIDUS using DDI 3.2.” The MIDUS (Midlife in the United States) study has been using DDI for “nearly 10 years” to help document and provide … Continue reading →

Scientific Data, “an open access journal from Nature Publishing Group that aids discoverability, citation, and reuse of research data,” has recommended that openICPSR will be an officially recommended data repository. For more information about this, please see the ICPSR News … Continue reading →

The National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP) is hosting a session at the ICPSR Summer Program entitled “Secondary Data Analysis and the National Addiction & HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP).” The workshop will take place in Ann Arbor, … Continue reading →

The Population Europe Resource Finder and Archive (PERFAR) links policies, data, and research for users to explore population developments. The PERFAR portal is online at http://www.perfar.eu. It is designed to meet the information needs of researchers, policy makers, civil society … Continue reading →

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ICPSR recently announced a two-part webinar session focusing on the “launch of openICPSR, ICPSR’s public-access data sharing collection, AND the launch of openICPSR for Institutions and Journals.” The webinar is scheduled for February 10, 2015 (12pm EST). The first part … Continue reading →

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2015 ICPSR Research Paper Competitions We are still accepting applications for three 2015 competitions (ICPSR Undergraduate, ICPSR Master’s, and RCMD). Awards: $1,000 for first place, $750 for second place. There are separate undergraduate and master’s prizes for this competition. Deadline: … Continue reading →

“Institutional openICPSR is a research data-sharing service developed to meet the needs of universities, journals, research centers, and departments. We offer a fully-hosted, economical, professionally-run, and trusted research data repository that demonstrates the research impact of your organization.” For more … Continue reading →

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IPUMS-International recently announced the addition of 20 new samples. These samples come from the Dominican Republic, Ghana, Ireland, Liberia, Maili, Nigeria, Ukraine, Uruguary, and Zambia. For more information about this release go to: https://international.ipums.org/international/news.shtml#new_data_july2014 To access the data at IPUMS-International … Continue reading →

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Today, the US Census Bureau issued a new report focusing on women’s marital status and fertility. The report – Fertility of Women in the United States: 2012 – uses data from the 2012 American Community Survey and the 2012 Current … Continue reading →

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